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Favorite Fairy Tales: 27 Stories by the Brothers Grimm, Andersen, Perrault, and OthersGenerations of readers have thrilled to traditional tales recounted by folklorist Andrew Lang. Starting with his 1889 publication of The Blue Fairy Book and continuing through a rainbow-hued spectrum of other titles, Lang's stories continue to enchant audiences of all ages. This captivating anthology...
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Five Victorian Ghost NovelsFull texts of ""The Uninhabited House"" by Riddelll; ""The Amber Witch,"" by Meinhold; ""Monsieur Maurice"" by Edwards; ""A Phantom Lover"" by Lee; and ""The Ghost of Muir House"" by Beale. 6 illustrations.Author: Everett F. Bleiler, BleilerPublisher: Dover PublicationsPublished: 01/05/2012Pages: 464Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 8.46h...
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Brave New WordsFrom Stargate and Droid to Zero Gravity and Force Field, this historical dictionary is filled with fun and fascinating entries on all things science fiction. It's a unique window into the entire genre, through the words invented and passed along by science fictions most...
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Ireland in Mind: An Anthology: Three Centuries of Irish, English, and American Writers in Search of the Real IrelandFrom Oscar Wilde to James Joyce, from Virginia Woolf to Frank McCourt: three centuries of Irish, English, and American writers in search of the real Ireland. From the editor of the outstandingly popular Italy in Mind comes another superb collection: three centuries of fiction,...
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The Cambridge Companion to Gothic FictionFourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying genre from the 1760s to the end of the twentieth century. Essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theater, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry,...
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Great SpeechesFor someone who claimed he had been educated by littles -- a little now and a little then -- Abraham Lincoln displayed a remarkable facility in his use of the written word. The simple yet memorable eloquence of his speeches, proclamations and personal correspondence...
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Sense and SensibilityFor Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote. In a world ruled by money and self-interest, the Dashwood sisters have neither fortune nor connections. Concerned for others and for...
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Oxford Bookworms Factfiles: Marco Polo and the Silk Road: Level 2: 700-Word VocabularyFeatures topics such as environmental issues, historical facts, and culture. Full-color photographs, introductions, glossaries, and exercises enhance student reading and learning. Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.Author: Janet Hard-GouldPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 07/15/2010Pages: 56Binding...
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Two Cheers for DemocracyEssays that applaud democracy's toleration of individual freedom and self-criticism and deplore its encouragement of mediocrity: "We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two."Author: E. M. ForsterPublisher: Mariner BooksPublished: 01/24/1962Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.52h...
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SheDrawing on his knowledge of Africa and of ancient legends, adventure writer H. Rider Haggard weaves this disturbing tale of Ayesha, the mysterious and immortal white queen of a Central African tribe. She, or "She-who-must-be-obeyed," is the embodiment of the mythological female figure who...
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Eugenie GrandetDepicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honor de Balzac's Eug nie Grandet is translated with an introduction by M.A. Crawford in Penguin Classics. In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with his...
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Sherlock Holmes: The Major Stories with Contemporary Critical EssaysContaining fifteen Sherlock Holmes stories, this volume of Sherlock Holmes features concise commentary on how each story relates to the author, the series, and the detective genre as well as nine accompanying essays which reflect the recent critical interest in Holmes and examine the...
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Literature and the GodsBrilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso's lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the centuries, Calasso gives us...
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Jo's BoysBest known for the novels Little Women and Little Men, Louisa May Alcott brought the story of her feisty protagonist Jo and the adventures and misadventures of the March family to an entertaining, surprising, and bittersweet conclusion in Jo's Boys. Beginning ten years after...
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Family Happiness and Other StoriesAlthough best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy did not confine his literary talents to voluminous works. He was also a master of the short story and the long story -- the particularly Russian form known as povest'. Each of...
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Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature: Circling the VoidAlbert Wendt is the leading writer and exponent of Pacific literature. His work is consistently different in style, politically challenging, and ranges across essays, plays, poems, stories and novels, two of which have been filmed. This book is the first full-length study of his...
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Occasional, Critical, and Political WritingA unique anthology of Joyce's non-fictional writings, this volume addresses diverse issues such as aesthetics, the functions of the press, censorship, Irish cultural history, English literature and Empire. The collection includes newspaper articles, reviews, lectures and essays, and covers 40 years of Joyce's life....
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The Romance of Tristan and IseultA tale of chivalry and doomed, transcendent love, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult is one of the most resonant works of Western literature, as well as the basis for our enduring idea of romance. The story of the Cornish knight and the Irish...
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Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Vol. 4, 1945-1950A record of a great writer's nonfiction work and an evolving picture of the last years of his life, during the time when he published Animal Farm and 1984. "A magnificent tribute to the probity, consistency and insight of Orwell's topical writings....A remarkable self-portrait"...
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Good SoldierA landmark of 20th-century literature, a novel of forbidden and repressed passions, both sexual and moral.Author: Ford Madox FordPublisher: VintagePublished: 03/13/1989Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.15h x 5.22w x 0.65dISBN: 9780679722182About the AuthorFord Madox Ford was born Ford Hermann Hueffer in England in 1873....
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